| | ROMANIA: LEFT TO BE VOTED BACK BY WAVE OF POPULAR SUPPORT - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | This coalition has done nothing to improve the daily life of the Romanians, quite the contrary : incomes have even dropped in the last four years, the economy downsized by 15%, corruption is rife and Bucharest is as far as it is possible to get to being accepted by the European Union. |
 | | Ex-Communist party leader Ion Iliescu represents the Social Democratic Party (PDSR) and is expected to get 40% of the vote, which means that he will face a second round Presidential election in two weeks against one of the other candidates, Mugur Isarescu (Prime Minister, Independent), Teodor Stolojan (Liberal) and Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Right-wing nationalist). |
 | | Things are changing and the people are no fools. |
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